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July 9, 1937

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COLORADO'S PLANES AGAIN HUNT IN VAIN FOR MISS EARHART; Navy and Coast Guard Ships Search South and West of Howland Island Carrier, After Refueling, Will Speed West to Put Her 98 Aircraft on the Task Carried a Month's Emergency Rations, but Depended on Rain to Quench Thirst Phoenix Landing Held Possible LEXINGTON IS AT HAWAII FLIERS HAD LITTLE WATER FLIERS FIND NO CLUE TO EARHART PLANE Putnam Maintains Vigil

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Notable Births

David Hockney

1937David Hockney, English painter and photographer[†]

David Hockney is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Notable Deaths

Oliver Law

1937Oliver Law, American commander (born 1899)[†]

Oliver Law was an African-American communist and labor organizer, who fought for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War. Having previously served in the United States Army, he traveled to Spain and became commander of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion for several days and commander of its Machine Gun Company for much longer.

Historical Events

1937The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.[†]

The Fox Film Corporation was an American independent company that produced motion pictures and was formed in 1915 by the theater "chain" pioneer William Fox. It was the corporate successor to his earlier Greater New York Film Rental Company and Box Office Attraction Company.